Children with Disabilities and Disaster Risk Reduction: A Review

作     者：Steve Ronoh JC Gaillard Jay Marlowe 

作者机构：School of EnvironmentThe University of Auckland School of CounsellingHuman Services and Social WorkThe University of Auckland 

出 版 物：《International Journal of Disaster Risk Science》 (国际灾害风险科学学报（英文版）)

年 卷 期：2015年第6卷第1期

页      面：38-48页

核心收录：

学科分类：0303[法学-社会学] 12[管理学] 083002[工学-环境工程] 1204[管理学-公共管理] 0830[工学-环境科学与工程（可授工学、理学、农学学位）] 03[法学] 08[工学] 030301[法学-社会学] 

主　　题：Children with disabilities Disability concepts Disaster risk reduction Vulnerability 

摘      要：Children with disabilities are often excluded from disaster risk reduction (DRR) initiatives and, as a result, can experience amplified physical, psychological, and educational vulnerabilities. Research on children with disabilities during disasters is lacking, and their potential value in helping shape inclusive policies in DRR planning has been largely overlooked by both researchers and policymakers. This article highlights the existing research and knowledge gap. The review includes literature from two areas of scholarship in relation to disasters—children, and people with disabilities—and provides a critique of the prevailing medical, economic, and social discourses that conceptualize disability and associated implications for DRR. The article analyzes the different models in which disability has been conceptualized, and the role this has played in the inclusion or exclusion of children with disabilities in DRR activities and in determining access to necessary resources in the face of disaster. Finally, the study explores possible pathways to studying the contribution and involvement of children with disabilities in DRR.